Word: ploy
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MANY CYNICAL Americans viewed the swine flu program as a Presidential election-year ploy. It may have been that, but the politics of the program ran far deeper. The Federal health establishment, even those advisers with no stake in a Republican victory, supported the program enthusiastically...
...backers would not vote for the liberal Californian. There were rumors that on the second ballot some of Burton's supporters threw their votes to Wright to guarantee that Boiling would be squeezed out. Burton admits that a number of his cronies had suggested such a ploy but insists that he vetoed it. "I told them, 'Straight football!' " Burton said later. "I wanted all the votes I could get." The denial was disbelieved by many Congressmen. The second-ballot result: Burton 107, Wright 95, Boiling...
...they could be achieved during WHO'S self-imposed timetable of only ten years. In some regions local tribesmen were suspicious of visiting WHO workers; in Ethiopia, two health workers were shot and killed. Some backward people refused to reveal that members of their family had smallpox. One ploy that was successfully used in Bangladesh: a $17 bounty was given to anyone who reported a case. More often, though, the workers had to make painstaking house-to-house searches to seek out suspected victims...
...Carter blacks charged that the episode was a campaign ploy. There was no evidence of that, though Ford's campaign committee sent telegrams about the incident to 400 black clergymen. But King has a reputation for antics. When he ran for the Albany city council, he distributed a poster showing him sticking out his tongue and waving his fingers near his ears. The caption: "You've tried everything else. Now try a crazy nigger." His brother C.B. King, an attorney, assured a Carter rally that Clennon was "emotionally and mentally disturbed...
...narrowly in the polls when Sasser attacked his failure to disclose his finances; heir to a candy fortune, Brock was described by Sasser as "the candy man from Lookout Mountain." Fighting back, Brock tried to link Sasser to miniscandals in the administration of Governor Ray Blanton, but the ploy flopped...